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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2004, 11:49 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2004, 11:49 PM CDT (04:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2004, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Throckmorton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 19, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 950 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 .UPDATE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE GRADUALLY DISSIPATING LATE THIS EVENING IN OUR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES. CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR WICHITA FALLS ARE MOVING SSE...AND MAY REACH HASKELL/THROCKMORTON COUNTIES. CONVECTIVE CLUSTER OVER FAR EASTERN NM MOVING ESE...BUT SHOULD REMAIN WELL NORTHWEST OF OUR COUNTIES OVERNIGHT. OUTSIDE OF LOCALIZED COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS...APPEARS THAT THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT HAS ENDED TONIGHT FOR WEST CENTRAL TX. WE WILL GO AHEAD AND DROP THE FFA FOR TONIGHT. POPS WILL ALSO BE LOWERED FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL (HOURLY 2 INCH AND THREE HOURLY 2-5 INCH RATES) IS SHIFTING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD INTO MCCULLOCH AND SAN SABA COUNTIES. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS COLD TOPS (INFRARED CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURES BELOW -60 DEGREES C) WITH THIS CONVECTIVE WEDGE. BECAUSE OF THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WITH THIS PERSISTENT BAND OF STORMS...WE ARE EXTENDING THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH SOUTHWARD INTO MCCULLOCH AND SAN SABA COUNTIES. THIS SUMMER HAS CERTAINLY BACKED UP THAT CONCEPT...SOME AMAZING 24 HOUR RAIN TOTALS OVER PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS ACROSS NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY WITH 8 TO 10 INCHES RAIN PERSISTED OVER OUR EASTERN COUNTIES TILL NOON. WITH SOME SUN TODAY...SOUTHERN COUNTIES WILL GET INTO THE 90S...A RARE EVEN SO FAR THIS AUGUST. CU FIELD AND A FEW SHOWERS HAVE ALREDY FORMED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. CLOUDS AND RAIN CHANCES DONT GO AWAY...AS IMPULSE AFTER IMPULSE PRODUCES POSSIBILITIES...MAINLY ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. FOR TONIGHT RAIN PUSHES SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER AHEAD OF NEXT COLD FRONT. SHOULD BE ANOTHER WET NIGHT NORTH OF I-20. GFS/MAV PERFORMANCE HAS NOT HANDLED POPS VERY WELL THIS PAST WEEK...SO WILL LEAN TOWARDS THE WETTER ETA. TOYED WITH ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE BIG COUNTRY FOR TONIGHT...SINCE MOST OF THE AREA GOT GOOD RAINS PAST 24 HOURS. THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT...IT IS PROABABLY BETTER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION SO WILL GO AHEAD AND ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ABOUT THE NORTHERN HALF OF OUR CWA...WATCH WILL GO IN EFFECT AT 4 PM TILL 7 AM. PUSHES IMPULSES OUR WAY...ONE WAVE TOMORROW NIGHT ONCE AGAIN IMPACTS THE BIG COUNTRY. CANT RULE OUT RAIN THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SPC PLACES MOST OF OUR AREA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR SVR ON FRIDAY... FOR THE AREAS OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT...DYNAMICS ARE THERE WITH CAPE AND SHEAR...AND NUMEROUS BOUNDAIRES...HOWEVER...AT THIS POINT WILL NOT MENTION SEVERE IN THE FORECAST...AGAIN POPS WILL BE HIGHER THAN GFS MOS. WILL NO TOUCH EXTENDED...FOR NOW WILL CONTINUE BELOW NORMAL HIGH TEMPS...ALTHOUGH EVENTUALLY UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD ACROSS OUR AREA AND PRODUCE MORE TYPICAL WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS...BUT AT THIS POINT IT WILL BE NEAR THE END OF THE MONTH BEFORE THAT CAN HAPPEN. HOW COOL HAS THIS SUMMER BEEN? AVERAGE SUMMER TEMPERATURES FOR THE JUNE-JULY-AUGUST PERIOD CURRENTLY HAS 2004 AS THE THIRD COOLEST SUMMER ON RECORD FOR ABILENE AND THE 14TH COOLEST ON RECORD FOR SAN ANGELO. && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 26/19
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 1:47 PM CDT, 10 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 147 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-201846- BROWN TX-CALLAHAN TX-COKE TX-COLEMAN TX-CONCHO TX-CROCKETT TX- FISHER TX-HASKELL TX-IRION TX-JONES TX-KIMBLE TX-MASON TX- MCCULLOCH TX-MENARD TX-NOLAN TX-RUNNELS TX-SAN SABA TX-SCHLEICHER TX- SHACKELFORD TX-STERLING TX-SUTTON TX-TAYLOR TX-THROCKMORTON TX- TOM GREEN TX- 147 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM SAN ANGELO TO SAN SABA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED...PRODUCING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME LOCATIONS. THIS RAIN WILL FALL ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. IN ADDITION TO THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON WILL SLIP SOUTHWARD INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP...WITH A FEW STORMS PERHAPS REACHING SEVERE LIMITS. LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 7:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 19, 11:43 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1143 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 TXZ099-200545- THROCKMORTON TX- 1143 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... AT 1137 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBERT...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SEYMOUR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...ELBERT AT 1215 AM CDT. BE PREPARED FOR WINDS NEAR 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 58 min |
| Aug 20, 1:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 59 min |
| Aug 20, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 4 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 8:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Taylor | 65 min |
| Aug 20, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 62 min |
| Aug 20, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 61 min |
| Aug 20, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 58 min |
| Aug 20, 6:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.